Off the ice...

I made it off the ice, yeah!!  It was a long trip.  We left McMurdo at 1 am , arrived at the Pegasus airport at 2 am, waited outside for 2 hours in single digit cold weather, then took off about 4:30 am, then arrived in New Zealand at about 9:30 am.  Then our hotel room was not available until 2 pm, so just walked around for awhile.  Overall everything went pretty smooth.  My flight home is Monday and will arrive in CO around 3 pm - can't wait for the parade :)

I got some amazing pictures from the flight, they let us go up in the cockpit of the C-17.  McMurdo was in West Antarctica and when we fly home we go over East Antarctica.  East Antarctica has more of the typical Antarctica pictures.  I will not be able to post them all because the hotel charges $30 per every 100 Mb.  When I get some were like the LA airport or home I will post them all.  I am not going to reduce the size of these posted below so you can click on them and see the true picture.  The sights were so amazing, I could not believe what I was seeing and felt again this is true Antarctica.

I have some other pictures I will post as well.  When I have posted everything I will post a final post to let everyone know and free up your days again.

More of these pictures to come...

- notice the altitude in the 2nd picture on the instrument panel